Here is a sneak preview: you can listen to the entire new Poetry Jukebox curation using the link below!
Poetry Jukebox 'No Word For Stay' is live!
Project 2021:
SOUNDINGS- Poetry of Belfast
Watch the videos of each of the poets reading their work:
Project 2021:
‘Entity / Spéirbhean’
New short film: Entity / Spéirbhean
‘Entity / Spéirbhean’ is a cross-artform short film, bringing together spoken word (Máire Zepf), dance (Clara Kerr) and film (Jo Guthrie).
The collaboration takes a fresh look at how women inhabit their bodies across the span of their lives and is a celebration of the beauty of female resilience.
In Irish with subtitles.
In Irish with subtitles.
Find out more about 'Entity | Spéirbhean’ and view film:
COMING SOON!
NEW POETRY JUKEBOX CURATION
Curation Title: Star Gazing
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
From 'When I Heard the Learned Astronomer' by Walt Whitman.
This edition of poems for Poetry Jukebox is curated by poets Iggy McGovern & Maria McManus. The curation explores poems that connect with any aspect of star gazing, from constellations to comets, from stardust to space shuttles, from Dark Matter to Darth Vader, from Black Holes to Mission Control …
Project 2020:
Play Me a Story/ MO CHEOL THÚ!
Cadé mar a insíonn tú scéal trí mheán an cheoil? Chuir Máire ceist ar a cuid cairde i gCeolfhoireann Uladh chun fáil amach!
How do you tell a story through music? Máire has been finding out exactly that with a little help from her friends in the Ulster Orchestra!
Find out more!
Project 2020:
SAME/Difference
View the SAME/Difference Project
Ongoing Project
VIDEO
Head of Literature at the Arts Council Damian Smyth talks about the importance of Poetry Day and the Label-Lit Project.
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